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Anonymous wrote:What was that nugget Deja dropped about Malik not responding to her texts all morning? Definitely felt like foreshadowing.

He loves her. I think he's going to do what Randall suggested.

Or, he's going to somehow get back with the mother of his child, since she's there in Boston with him. (Good luck with that, Malik!)

I know. I was sad about this, but I think he's going to ditch her too, so that she can live her own life. I love both of them.

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Anonymous wrote:What was that nugget Deja dropped about Malik not responding to her texts all morning? Definitely felt like foreshadowing.

He loves her. I think he's going to do what Randall suggested.

Or, he's going to somehow get back with the mother of his child, since she's there in Boston with him. (Good luck with that, Malik!)

Anonymous wrote:Can you really maintain a 400-lb life without eating A TON of food? It doesn't make sense to me that they show her eating healthy food, and yet she is so large.

Also, just physics seems to dictate that a 375 -400 lb person could not just pull up a small chair at the table and talk to Rebecca without said chair breaking. Most chairs hold 250-300lbs, max. She would need re-inforced furniture, no?

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Anonymous wrote:ok but with Rebecca being chastised by her Mom for eating (and the mom giving her just a sliver of pie) why isn't Rebecca fat? And, why is it Kate if Rebecca didn't make a big deal about snacking or pie or licking the spatula?

Previous episodes have shown Rebecca trying to control Kate's diet, which was both awful and realistic. I loved seeing Kate stand up for herself and her determination to break the food-policing cycle, and it made me cringe to see Toby acknowledge genetics and to say "People are horrible to fat kids, and the solution is not to get fat, despite genetics." Yeah, Toby, and the solution to depression is to buck up and look on the bright side.

Or, you know, you could be supportive of people and treat everyone as having value.

Really disliking Toby, maybe for the first time.

Toby made serious lifestyle changes, focused on healthy diet and exercise, to lose a significant amount of weight. I think it's reasonable for him to suggest attention to diet and exercise would be beneficial for the kids, as someone who's been on both sides. Kate may have been dealt a worse genetic hand, but she doesn't seem particularly attentive to diet and exercise concerns.

To be fair, I think a big reason “Toby” lost weight was the backlash against actors wearing fat suits. Likewise, I think originally Kate was going to go on a weight loss journey as part of her storyline, but there was a lot of backlash to that, especially after Chrissy revealed losing weight was written into her contract.

I think her extreme obesity it very dangerous, but it’s not like we have a plethora of overweight actresses like we do overweight actors. So yes, it is refreshing that Kate’s story doesn’t entirely revolve around her weight.

Is gaining weight written into actor contracts? Or clauses about being muscular, etc? Not saying any of them are okay. But, why are we only shaming one and not the other?

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Anonymous wrote:ok but with Rebecca being chastised by her Mom for eating (and the mom giving her just a sliver of pie) why isn't Rebecca fat? And, why is it Kate if Rebecca didn't make a big deal about snacking or pie or licking the spatula?

Previous episodes have shown Rebecca trying to control Kate's diet, which was both awful and realistic. I loved seeing Kate stand up for herself and her determination to break the food-policing cycle, and it made me cringe to see Toby acknowledge genetics and to say "People are horrible to fat kids, and the solution is not to get fat, despite genetics." Yeah, Toby, and the solution to depression is to buck up and look on the bright side.

Or, you know, you could be supportive of people and treat everyone as having value.

Really disliking Toby, maybe for the first time.

Toby made serious lifestyle changes, focused on healthy diet and exercise, to lose a significant amount of weight. I think it's reasonable for him to suggest attention to diet and exercise would be beneficial for the kids, as someone who's been on both sides. Kate may have been dealt a worse genetic hand, but she doesn't seem particularly attentive to diet and exercise concerns.

To be fair, I think a big reason “Toby” lost weight was the backlash against actors wearing fat suits. Likewise, I think originally Kate was going to go on a weight loss journey as part of her storyline, but there was a lot of backlash to that, especially after Chrissy revealed losing weight was written into her contract.

I think her extreme obesity it very dangerous, but it’s not like we have a plethora of overweight actresses like we do overweight actors. So yes, it is refreshing that Kate’s story doesn’t entirely revolve around her weight.

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Anonymous wrote:I know they can't do it with Chrissy Metz, but I would love to see Kate lose the weight in 10 years

Why? What does it change for you?

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Anonymous wrote:ok but with Rebecca being chastised by her Mom for eating (and the mom giving her just a sliver of pie) why isn't Rebecca fat? And, why is it Kate if Rebecca didn't make a big deal about snacking or pie or licking the spatula?

Previous episodes have shown Rebecca trying to control Kate's diet, which was both awful and realistic. I loved seeing Kate stand up for herself and her determination to break the food-policing cycle, and it made me cringe to see Toby acknowledge genetics and to say "People are horrible to fat kids, and the solution is not to get fat, despite genetics." Yeah, Toby, and the solution to depression is to buck up and look on the bright side.

Or, you know, you could be supportive of people and treat everyone as having value.

Really disliking Toby, maybe for the first time.

Toby made serious lifestyle changes, focused on healthy diet and exercise, to lose a significant amount of weight. I think it's reasonable for him to suggest attention to diet and exercise would be beneficial for the kids, as someone who's been on both sides. Kate may have been dealt a worse genetic hand, but she doesn't seem particularly attentive to diet and exercise concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:ok but with Rebecca being chastised by her Mom for eating (and the mom giving her just a sliver of pie) why isn't Rebecca fat? And, why is it Kate if Rebecca didn't make a big deal about snacking or pie or licking the spatula?

Previous episodes have shown Rebecca trying to control Kate's diet, which was both awful and realistic. I loved seeing Kate stand up for herself and her determination to break the food-policing cycle, and it made me cringe to see Toby acknowledge genetics and to say "People are horrible to fat kids, and the solution is not to get fat, despite genetics." Yeah, Toby, and the solution to depression is to buck up and look on the bright side.

Or, you know, you could be supportive of people and treat everyone as having value.

Really disliking Toby, maybe for the first time.

Toby made serious lifestyle changes, focused on healthy diet and exercise, to lose a significant amount of weight. I think it's reasonable for him to suggest attention to diet and exercise would be beneficial for the kids, as someone who's been on both sides. Kate may have been dealt a worse genetic hand, but she doesn't seem particularly attentive to diet and exercise concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:So are Rebecca and Miguel loaded, or are they expecting Kevin to pay for this round the clock home health care? It's incredibly expensive. Especially if they are essentially getting 3+ live-in people to work in shifts.

Rebecca and Miguel are well off and Kevin is also financially very well off. As is Randall. Kate is the only sibling that isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is minor, but isn't the big new house being built on the same piece of land as the old cabin? If so then why can’t the old cabin be the guest house for the home health team?

I thought the same thing

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Anonymous wrote:I think I saw the next show is March 8. Did anyone notice Beth’s outfit when she was welcoming her recruited students? Brown leather knee length pencil skirt with the same shade sweater. It was a nice look.

All her looks are freaking amazing.

Anonymous wrote:I know this is minor, but isn't the big new house being built on the same piece of land as the old cabin? If so then why can’t the old cabin be the guest house for the home health team?

Anonymous wrote:I think I saw the next show is March 8. Did anyone notice Beth’s outfit when she was welcoming her recruited students? Brown leather knee length pencil skirt with the same shade sweater. It was a nice look.